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David Wensel Photography

  • It Will Be Beautiful
  • At the Fall Interstice
  • Black and White
  • Bushwick
  • Palimpsest: Rewriting Place
  • Collar Counties
  • Inspired Response
  • Dwelling
  • Portraiture - Studio
  • Portraiture - Street
  • Artifacts
  • Workbook
  • Body Language/Doll Parts
  • First Last and Always
  • Blog
  • Contact
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Winter in Driftless

March 10, 2017

Winter in the Driftless area of Wisconsin is the black and white season of repose in an otherwise abundantly colorful world. Wisconsin winter serves up loads of negative space that tends to focus the attention on anything notable breaking the continuities of white sky and white snow. I look to shoot edges and transitions. Floating shards of lake ice, pastures punctuated by hillocks of barren trees, memorial garden mementos and hills and ridges crowned like the thinning domes of old men. Such things speak either of potential on the brink of manifestation or, alternatively, potential nearly spent.

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Edges and Limits

Informed by longing and manifest in the urge to collect, partake, revere and commemorate, it is the archaeological imagination that creates mementos and interprets artifacts along the way to writing the stories we tell ourselves.